"As self-portraits these works are concerned not with self-image but with self-embodiment and how painting can materially express the experience of self. Here is the female body, mortal and splendid, but tenanted - occupied rather than objectified. As nudes these...
What's the difference between the art fairs of Miami Beach and Black Friday/Cyber Monday? The answer is, both are enormous shopping centres growing in size each year as new 'retailers' join the bandwagon, though while the latter is upfront about offering bargains and...
A canvas by the American Abstractionist Cy Twombly has set a $70.5 million auction record for the artist. The "blackboard" painting, Untitled (New York City), 1968, was the highpoint of the Contemporary evening sale at Sotheby’s, which...
Christie's has achieved several record prices for artists at their auction in New York last night. The highest prices were for Amedeo Modigliani and Roy Lichtenstein, with the hammer falling at $170.4 million and $95.37 million. Modigliani's "Nu...
A record price has been achieved for a blue period Picasso at Sotheby’s in New York. La Gommeuse, painted in Paris in 1901, sold for $67.5m (£45m) at Sotheby's, as the highlight of their Impressionist & Modern sale. The...
The British Art critic Brian Sewell has died aged 84. Mr Sewell who was considered an expert on the French artist Poussin was the art critic for the London Evening Standard newspaper over a 30 year period. He was always outspoken with controversial views on modern and...
The disgraced Collector and former owner of Sotheby’s, A. Alfred Taubman’s art collection will be sold in a series of dedicated auctions beginning this autumn in New York*. The outstanding collection, which comprises more than 500 works...
The UK department for culture has taken the unprecedented step of extending a deadline over the export of the Egyptian sculpture of Sekhemka. This occurred after it was determined that the sale of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian statue to a private collector, by the...
The United States has again overtaken China as the world's leading marketplace for art at auction. After a record 2015 the US showed growth due to the sale of major works by Picasso, Giacometti, Monet and Warhol. There was a 20 percent growth in the first six months...